Joint COSMIC Tenth Data Users' Workshop and IROWG-6 Meeting

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Thursday, September 21
Time Session/Title Presenter Presentation
7:00 to 8:30

Working Breakfast

Location: MacGregor Room

   
8:45 to 12:00

Opening Session

This session is dedicated to the memory of Jay S. Fein, NSF program manager who played a key role in GPS/MET and COSMIC

Location: Concert Hall

   
8:45 to 8:50

Opening remarks, welcome, logistics, etc.

Location: Concert Hall

Nick Pedatella  
8:50 to 9:00 Opening Remarks Guey-Shin Chang, National Applied Research Laboratories, Taiwan  
9:00 to 9:15 Remembering Jay Fein and his Key Role in GPS/MET and COSMIC Richard Anthes, COSMIC Program UCAR Download
9:15 to 9:55

Keynote #1

GNSSRO at NSF: A personal view from the NSF Climate and Large-Scale Dynamics Program

Eric DeWeaver, National Science Foundation Download
9:55 to 10:35

Keynote #2

Radio Occultation in the NESDIS Enterprise

Karen St. Germain, Director, Systems Architecture and Advanced Planning, NOAA/NESDIS  
10:35 to 11:00 Break    
11:00 to 11:45

Keynote #3

From FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC to FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 Mission

Science Highlights from COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3

Chung-Huei (Vicky) Chu, NSPO and Bill Schreiner, UCAR/COSMIC Download
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11:45 to 12:00 Discussion and Group Photo    
12:00 to 1:00

Working Lunch

Location: MacGregor Room

   
1:00 to 4:30

Afternoon Session #1 — Current and Future Missions / GNSS Technology

Location: Concert Hall

Karen St. Germain, Chair  
1:00 to 1:30 A future constellation of CubeSats for radio occultation yielding 10,000 soundings per day (Invited Talk) Dominique Raspaud, Météo-France/CNRS, CNRM/GAME Download
1:30 to 1:50 Overview of NOAA's Commercial Weather Data Pilot Karen St. Germain, Director, Systems Architecture and Advanced Planning, NOAA/NESDIS Download
1:50 to 2:10 Radio occultation profile results obtained from Spire’s CubeSat GNSS-RO constellation Vladimir Irisov, Spire Global, Inc. Download
2:10 to 2:30 WMO's status report on IROWG related issues update Toshiyuki Kurino, World Meteorological Organization Download
2:30 to 3:00 Break    
3:00 to 3:30 Evolving the TriG RO Instrument to Life in a Cubesat Ecosystem (Invited Talk) Tom Meehan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Download
3:30 to 3:50 ESA activities for future GNSS Radio Occultations receivers Michel Tossaint, System Engineering - European Space Agency - Earth Observation Future Missions Download
3:50 to 4:10 The RO Instrument for MetOp-SG - First Test Results Anders Carlström, RUAG Space AB Download
4:10 to 4:30 GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM OCCULTATION SOUNDER II (GNOS II) Weihua Bai, National Space Science Center (NSSC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Download
4:35 to 5:45

Afternoon Session #2 — Introduction to Posters

Location: Concert Hall

Ulrich Foelsche, Chair  
4:35 to 5:35 Poster Introductions (1 minute oral introduction/summary per poster)    
5:45 to 8:00

Welcome Reception and Poster Session

Location: Piñon Billiard Rooms

(Dinner on your own)

   
Friday, September 22
Time Session/Title Presenter Presentation
7:00 to 8:30

Working Breakfast

Location: MacGregor Room

   
9:00 to 10:20

Morning Session #1 — Ionosphere and Space Weather

Location: Concert Hall

Tony Mannucci, Chair  
9:00 to 9:20 Ionospheric Weather Monitored by GNSS Radio Occultation and Ground- based Observations J.Y. (Tiger) Liu, National Central University & National Space Organization Download
9:20 to 9:40 Plans for Using COSMIC-II for Real-time Ionospheric Mapping at NOAA Dominic Fuller-Rowell, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Download
9:40 to 10:00 Coupled whole atmosphere-ionosphere data assimilation in WACCM-X Nicholas Pedatella, High Altitude Observatory, NCAR & COSMIC Program Office, UCAR Download
10:00 to 10:20 Assessment of the NeQuick and IRI-Plas model performance on electron content representation using Spaceborne RO and topside TEC GPS measurements Iurii Cherniak, UCAR/COSMIC Download
10:20 to 10:40 Break    
10:40 to 11:50

Morning Session #2 — GNSS Technology

Location: Concert Hall

Jan Weiss, Chair  
10:40 to 11:10 Recent Development in GNSS-Reflected Signal Processing and Receiver Research in Taiwan (Invited Talk) Jyh-Ching Juang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Download
11:10 to 11:30 Sensitivity of airborne radio occultation to tropospheric properties over ocean and land Feiqin Xie, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi Download
11:30 to 11:50 Mountain-top Radio Occultation with Multi-GNSS Signals: Experiment and Receiver Signal Processing Techniques Yu Morton, University of Colorado at Boulder Download
11:50 to 12:50

Working Lunch

Location: MacGregor Room

   
12:50 to 2:50

Afternoon Session #1 — Meteorology and NWP

Location: Concert Hall

Bill Kuo, Chair  
12:50 to 1:20 Observing System Simulation Experiments with Radio Occultation observations (Invited Talk) Lidia Cucurull, NOAA Download
1:20 to 1:50 The impact of assimilating GPS-RO over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean David Bromwich, The Ohio State University Download
1:50 to 2:10 The GPS RO Data Assimilation in the Global MPAS-GSI Model Shu-Ya Chen, GPS Science and Application Research Center, National Central University, Taiwan Download
2:10 to 2:30 Assimilation of GNSS data in KMA NWP models Eun-Hee Kim, Numerical Modeling Center/Korea Meteorological Administration Download
2:30 to 2:50 Impact of GNSS-RO bending angle assimilation at NRL Benjamin Ruston, Naval Research Laboratory Download
2:50 to 3:10 Break    
3:10 to 4:50

Afternoon Session #2 — Meteorology and NWP

Location: Concert Hall

Sean Healy, Chair  
3:10 to 3:30 The Impact of Assimilating COSMIC Radio Occultation Observations on Forecasts of an Intense Atmospheric River during CALWATER2015 Michael Murphy, Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego Download
3:30 to 3:50 Assimilation of GNSS Radio Occultation Data at JMA Hiromi Owada, Numerical Prediction Division, Japan Meteorological Agency Download
3:50 to 4:10 Impact of Physically Based Dynamic Observational Errors on the Assimilation of GPS RO Data in the Tropical Lower Troposphere Hui Liu, UCAR/COSMIC Download
4:10 to 4:30 Demonstrating the impact of RO dynamic error estimate on NWP using GFS/GSI Hailing Zhang, COSMIC Download
4:30 to 4:50 Estimation of Marine Boundary Layer Heights over the Western North Pacific using GPS Radio Occultation Profiles Fang-Ching Chien, National Taiwan Normal University  
4:50 to 5:30

Afternoon Session #3 — IROWG

Location: Concert Hall

Axel von Engeln, Chair  
4:50 to 5:30

Summary of IROWG Activities (invited)

Location: Concert Hall

Sean Healy and Ulrich Foelsche, IROWG Co-Chairs, and Tony Mannucci, NASA JPL Download
5:30 Adjourn - Dinner on your own    
Saturday, September 23
Time Session/Title Presenter Presentation
7:00 to 8:30

Working Breakfast

Location: MacGregor Room

   
9:00 to 12:00

IROWG Working Group Meetings

Location: Breakout rooms

 

IROWG Space Weather Working Group will meet Monday morning, 9:00 - 10:30

Location: Billiard Room

   
12:00 to 1:00

Working Lunch

Location: Wonderview Patio

   
1:00 to 6:00

Rocky Mountain National Park Excursion

(Dinner on your own)

   
Monday, September 25
Time Session/Title Presenter Presentation
7:00 to 8:30

Working Breakfast

Location: MacGregor Room

   
9:00 to 10:30

Morning Session #1 — Meteorology and NWP

Location: Concert Hall

 

IROWG Space Weather Working Group

Location: Billiard Room

Lidia Cucurull, Chair  
9:00 to 9:30 ECMWF Impact of GPS-RO measurements in NWP and climate reanalyses (Invited Talk) Sean Healy, ECMWF Download
9:30 to 9:50 How can the GNSS RO improve the volcanic clouds studies? Riccardo Biondi, beneficiary of an AXA Research Fund postdoctoral grant, Istituto di Scienze dell’Atmosfera e del Clima - ISAC-CNR, Rome, Italy Download
9:50 to 10:10 Thermodynamic Structure of Marine Atmospheric Boundary layer over Indian Ocean using GPS Radio Occultation (RO) D. Narayana Rao, SRM Research Institute, SRM University, Kattankulathur  
10:10 to 10:30 Observing Atmospheric Rivers with GNSS RO data Ulrich Foelsche, Institute of Physics/Institute for Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Meteorology (IGAM) and Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change (WEGC), University of Graz, Austria Download
10:30 to 10:50 Break    
10:50 to 12:30

Morning Session #2 — COSMIC-2 Updates

Location: Concert Hall

Estel Cardellach, Chair  
10:50 to 11:20 GNSS reflectometry from space for Earth observation: GEROS-ISS and G-TERN (Invited Talk) Jens Wickert, GFZ Potsdam/Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Download
11:20 to 11:50 COSMIC Data Analysis and Archive Center (CDAAC): Processing Status, Science Highlights, and Plans Jan Weiss, UCAR/COSMIC Download
11:50 to 12:10 Joint Program Verification and Validation Plan on FORMOSAT-7COSMIC-2 Joe Hackel, Riverside/NOAA Download
12:10 to 12:30 COSMIC-2 Space Weather Cal/Val Plans Lynette Gelinas, The Aerospace Corporation Download
12:20 to 1:20

Working Lunch

Location: MacGregor Room

   
1:20 to 3:10

Afternoon Session #1 — Ionosphere and Space Weather

Location: Concert Hall

Nick Pedatella, Chair  
1:20 to 1:50 Characterizing Irregularities and Scintillation with GNSS Radio Occultations (Invited Talk) Keith Groves, Boston College Download
1:50 to 2:10 Climatology and Characteristics F region Ionospheric Plasma Irregularities Observed by COSMIC Radio Occultation Receivers Chris Watson, COSMIC Download
2:10 to 2:30 On Unseasonal Equatorial Plasma Bubbles above South-East Asia Using Ground- and Space-based Observations Julie Currie, SPACE Research Centre, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC Australia Download
2:30 to 2:50 COSMIC-2 for Specification of the Global Scintillation Environment Ronald Caton, Space Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory Download
2:50 to 3:10 New Global Electron Density Observations from GPS-RO in the D- and E-Region Ionosphere Dong Wu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Download
3:10 to 3:30 Break    
3:30 to 5:20

Afternoon Session #2 — Climate

Location: Concert Hall

Ben Ho, Chair  
3:30 to 4:00 Advancing Earth Science With Global Navigation Satellite Signals (GNSS): The Benefits of a Community Approach (Invited Talk) Anthony Mannucci, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Download
4:00 to 4:20 Latest new EUMETSAT Products: A 15 year Reprocessed RO Data Set / GRAS Occultation Prediction Axel von Engeln, EUMETSAT Download
4:20 to 4:40 Overview of ROM SAF activities and the generation of climate data records Kent Lauritsen, Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark Download
4:40 to 5:00 The ROM SAF multi-mission reprocessing: Bending angle, refractivity, and dry temperature Stig Syndergaard, Danish Meteorological Institute Download
5:00 to 5:20 Structural uncertainty of multi-satellite RO records from different data centers: latest results Andrea K. Steiner, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change (WEGC) and Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Graz, Austria  
5:30 Adjourn — Dinner on your own    
Tuesday, September 26
Time Session/Title Presenter Presentation
7:00 to 8:30

Working Breakfast

Location: MacGregor Room

   
9:00 to 12:20

Morning Session — Climate


Location: Concert Hall

Andrea Steiner, Chair  
9:00 to 9:30 Tropical Wave Studies with COSMIC Temperature Profiles (Invited Talk) M. Joan Alexander, NorthWest Research Associates Download
9:30 to 9:50 Tropical temperature variances and wave-mean flow interactions derived from GPS radio occultation measurements William Randel, NCAR Download
9:45 to 10:10 Characterization of radiosonde temperature biases in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere using RO data: Assessment of Vaisala RS92, GRUAN RS92, and RS41 Shu-peng Ho, COSMIC/UCAR Download
10:10 to 10:30 Comparison of temperature profiles from the GCOS (Global Climate Observing System) Reference Upper-Air Network with dry temperatures derived from radio occultation bending angles Jordis Tradowsky, Bodeker Scientific (New Zealand), National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (New Zealand), Freie Universitaet Berlin (Germany) Download
10:30 to 10:50 Break    
10:50 to 11:20 GNSS radio occultation is the most accurate thermometer from space: where do we stand in realizing this claim? (Invited Talk) Gottfried Kirchengast, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change (WEGC), University of Graz, Austria Download
11:20 to 11:40 Differences in trends and anomalies of upper-air observations from GPS RO, AMSU, and radiosondes Florian Ladstädter, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change (WEGC), University of Graz, Graz, Austria Download
11:40 to 12:00 Evaluation of tropospheric specific humidity from GPS radio occultations using ERA–Interim, NASA/MERRA, and AURA/AIRS satellite observations Panagiotis Vergados, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Download
12:00 to 12:20 Error characteristics of RO, radiosonde, and AIRS tropospheric humidity in the tropics and subtropics from high-resolution time series Therese Rieckh, COSMIC Program Office, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado Download
12:30 to 1:20

Working Lunch

Location: MacGregor Room

   
1:20 to 3:00

Afternoon Session #1 — Climate


Location: Concert Hall

Gottfried Kirchengast, Chair  
1:20 to 1:40 Atmospheric QBO and ENSO indices with high vertical resolution from GNSS RO Hallgeir Wilhelmsen, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change (WEGC), University of Graz, Graz, Austria Download
1:40 to 2:00 Comparison of stratospheric temperature trends derived from GPS-RO and Aqua AMSU data Hans Gleisner, Danish Meteorological Institute Download
2:00 to 2:20 Working Together on the Stratosphere: Comparisons of RO and Hyperspectral IR Data in Temperature and Radiance Space Michelle Feltz, University of Wisconsin-Madison SSEC Download
2:20 to 2:40 Detection of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Height with FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC profiles for Plum Rain Fall Cheng-Yung Huang, Associate Researcher Download
2:40 to 3:00 A multi-method comparison of estimating Kelvin wave amplitudes and forcing from radio occultation data Jeremiah Sjoberg, UCAR/COSMIC Download
3:00 to 3:20 Break    
3:20 to 5:40

Afternoon Session #2 — Data Processing and Algorithms


Location: Concert Hall

Bill Schreiner, Chair  
3:20 to 3:40 Lower Tropospheric Rising vs. Setting Biases in GRAS Bending Angle Retrievals Christian Marquardt, EUMETSAT Download
3:40 to 4:00 Investigating the use of the Phase Matching Amplitude: Surface Reflections and Other Structures Thomas Sievert, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden Download
4:00 to 4:20 Correcting negatively-biased radio occultation refractivity below ducts using an optimal estimation approach Kuo-Nung Wang, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Download
4:20 to 4:40 Towards per datum error characterization for radio occultation retrieval products Chi Ao, JPL Download
4:40 to 5:00 A variational regularization of Abel transform Tae-Kwon Wee, COSMIC Download
5:00 to 5:20 Fluctuations of radio occultation signals in sounding the Earth's atmosphere Michael Gorbunov, A. M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences Download
5:20 to 5:40 Polarimetric GNSS RO: status of the PAZ mission and polarimetric retrieval algorithms Estel Cardellach, Institute of Space Studies (ICE-CSIC/IEEC) Download
5:30 Adjourn — Dinner on your own    
Wednesday, September 27
Time Session/Title Presenter Presentation
7:00 to 8:30

Working Breakfast

Location: MacGregor

   
9:10 to 10:10

Morning Session #1 — Data Processing and Alogrithms

Vicky Chu, Chair  
9:10 to 9:30 Representation of vertical atmospheric structures by radio occultation (RO) observations – Comparison of high resolution RO and radiosonde profiles Zhen Zeng, UCAR Download
9:30 to 9:50 GPS RO Retrieval Improvements in Ice Clouds Xiaolei Zou, ESSIC, University of Maryland Download
9:50 to 10:10 Assessment of Radio Occultation refractivity under heavy precipitation Ramon Padullés, Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (IEEC-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain Download
10:10 to 10:30 Break    
10:30 to 12:00

Morning Session #2 — Wrap-Up Discussions

Bill Schreiner and Tiger Liu, Chair  
10:30 to 12:00 IROWG Subgroups & Recommendations Sean Healy and Ulrich Foelsche, IROWG Co-Chairs  
12:00 to 12:20 Closing Remarks    
12:30 to 1:30

Working Lunch (box lunch)

Location: MacGregor Room

   
1:30 Workshop Ends    

 

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